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package net.dongliu.apk.parser.cert.asn1.ber;

/**
 * Reader of ASN.1 Basic Encoding Rules (BER) data values.
 *
 * <p>BER data value reader returns data values, one by one, from a source. The interpretation of
 * data values (e.g., how to obtain a numeric value from an INTEGER data value, or how to extract
 * the elements of a SEQUENCE value) is left to clients of the reader.
 */
public interface BerDataValueReader {

    /**
     * Returns the next data value or {@code null} if end of input has been reached.
     *
     * @throws BerDataValueFormatException if the value being read is malformed.
     */
    BerDataValue readDataValue() throws BerDataValueFormatException;
}
